Win 11 Pro has high CPU usage on idle in bhyve
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:15:44 UTC
G’day I installed a windows 11 virtual machine with bhyve on FreeBSD 14.2 x64 and I always have a very busy CPU even when windows is in Idle. I tried different CPU configurations for the VM, but without success. This is the current configuration (vm-bhyve): loader="uefi" graphics_port="5950" graphics="yes" graphics_res="1024x768" xhci_mouse="yes" cpu=8 cpu_sockets=4 cpu_cores=2 #cpu_threads=1 memory=16G ahci_device_limit="8" network0_type="virtio-net" network0_switch=“firewall" disk0_type="ahci-hd" disk0_name="/dev/zvol/vm/win11" disk0_dev="custom" utctime="no" bhyve_options="-AP" The first VM is Windows 11, the second is FreeBSD, the third is Debian, and the others are Windows 10: